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	Republic of Venice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This move by the Ventians was as a response to the threatening expansion of Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan.
		This led in 1508 to the League of Cambrai against Venice, in which the Pope, the King of France, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the King of Aragon came together to despoil the republic.
		Venice claimed that its government was a ‘classical republic’ because it was a fusion of the three basic forms present in a mixed government: with the regal power in the Doge, the aristocratic in the senate, and the democratic in the Great Council
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republic_of_Venice (818 words)

	VENETO.ORG
		Venice was one of the architects of the anti-French league which, however, failed to destroy the French king's army at Fornovo in 1495 as it returned home.
		This Venice hoped to remove from the control of the pope, now that the Malatesta lords of Rimini were passing through a period of crisis, and the meteoric career of the duke of Valentinois, Cesare Borgia, son of pope Alexander VI was over.
		Venice's maritime aid was potentially useful to Spain, but not to the point of allowing her to reinforce her position in the Levant, which would increase her strength in Italy as well, where she was practically the only Italian state not subject to Spain.
	www.veneto.org /history/serenissima3.htm (5514 words)

	Venice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia) 45°26′N 12°19′E, the "city of canals", is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice in Italy.
		In the 12th century the essentials for the power of Venice were laid: the Venetian Arsenal was under construction in 1104; Venice wrested control of the Brenner pass from Verona in 1178, opening a lifeline to silver from Germany; the last autocratic doge, Vitale Michiele, died in 1172.
		Venice was the early center of music printing; Ottaviano Petrucci began publishing music almost as soon as this technology was available, and his publishing enterprise helped to attract composers from all over Europe, especially from France and Flanders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venice (3451 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Venice
		Venice, the capital of a province in Northern Italy, is formed of a group of 117 small islands joined together by 378 bridges mostly built of stone.
		At the same period Venice joined the Lombardic League, without, however, showing any excessive zeal for a cause which mattered but little to her, and thus the Peace of 1177, between Alexander III and Frederic Barbarossa, was solemnized at Venice, as being a neutral city.
		The suffragans of Venice are Adria, Belluno and Feltre, Ceneda, Chioggia, Concordia, Padua, Treviso, Verona, and Vicenza.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15333a.htm (6645 words)

	Venetian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		During the history of the republic of Venice, Venice had a long and rich history which was for me an unexpected one.
		Venice was obligated to give Padua to the family Carrara because they had assisted in the Venitian militarien campain.
		When we arrived at Venice I actually realized that we were in a city that had allot of history, during that week I think everybody rellized that, that we were in a city that had lots of art and one of the most touristic sites in Italy.
	www.ambrit-rome.com /clasproj/msvenice/history.html (2029 words)

	Historical Overview of Venice
		The future republic of Venice, however, was not born until the 5th and 6th centuries, after the collapse of the Roman empire,when Huns, Vandals, Goths, and Ostrogoths ravaged the former Roman territories.
		The Venetian Republic, which had lasted for nearly 1100 years, ended once and for all in 1797 when the city was conquered and occupied without resistance by Napoleon.
		Venice is perhaps best known for its glass (some made in the city but most made on the island of Murano) and its lace (from the island of Burano).
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/9923/venice.htm (2124 words)

	Italy, Venice and its Lagoon
		Venice, the island city, was founded in the 5th century.
		From 697 onwards the Republic of Venice, also called the Serenissima, was ruled by doges.
		The Republic of Venice was ended in 1797 and it became part of Italy in 1866.
	leonardfrank.com /Worldheritage/Venice.html (91 words)

	The Republic of Venice - From splendour to decline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Venice was founded in the fifth century and became one of the richest and most powerful cities in mediaeval Europe.
		Venice maintained this important role as the intermediary between East and West for several centuries, but its dominance gradually began to wane as from the end of the fifteenth century.
		Venice was also the city of theatre, dominated by Goldoni (1707-1793), of the erotic passion of Casanova (1725-1798), and of gambling at casinos where the aristocracy squandered the few surviving fortunes.
	museu.gulbenkian.pt /exposicoes/gaudi/4_i.asp (400 words)

	Venice - A Brief History by Viggo Preziosto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Republic of Venice fought for and snatched the eastern shores of the Adriatic to obtain clear access to commercial trade.
		In 697, the first Doge (Duke), the chief magistrate of the Republic of Venice and Genoa, was elected.
		By the 15th century Venice was known as the "Queen of the Seas." The city traded, especially as the main link between Europe and Asia.
	www.thecassiopeia.com /WebLions/SubscriberMap/Italy.html (559 words)

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		Venice paints a more complicated picture than the simplistic Fisher-Clark model, due to the pervasive role of services and knowledge throughout its history; indeed, the danger from applying such a simplistic model is that it obscures the role that knowledge work and services play throughout history.
		Venice knew that the advantages of location and natural protection it enjoyed — effective protection from invasion, keeping Venice at a distance from the intra-city warfare that engulfed the Italian peninsula throughout the middle ages and Renaissance — figured greatly in its economic development.
		By 1600 Venice was already beginning to be visited for pleasure by the upper classes in an early form of the “grand tour” of Europe that would in the 18th century be seen as practically a rite of passage by wealthy Europeans (and later Americans).
	www.econ.upf.es /ebha2004/papers/7A1.doc (6571 words)

	Venice
		La Serenissima (the Most Serene Republic), as Venice is known, lies about 40 kilometers (25 miles) to the east of Vicenza, where I live.
		Growing up, Venice was like a fairytale land, a place that only existed for me as an image in a book, a place in a story.
		Venice is dirty, packed tight with tourists, and in the summer the lagoon can give off a pungent odor to be sure, but it's still a marvel, a sight to behold.
	www.rikthib.com /venice.htm (940 words)

	Essay on Venice as a Republic
		It is tempting, perhaps, from the perspective of 21st century citizens of a republic to associate republics with good government and therefore cast aside self-identified republics that fail to live up to republican ideals.
		Such an examination demonstrates that Venice was a republic in theory (no great surprise) and that, in practice, Venice had elements of both republicanism and oligarchy.
		Martines interprets the government of Venice as an oligarchy and, in its inner councils, a plutocracy.
	www.dannyscl.net /academic/venice.html (1464 words)

	Saga of Palatini - Mythic Venice
		Venice is one of the largest cities of Mythic Europe, boasting a population of over 100,000 - comparable to London and Paris, and larger than Rome, Cologne, or Barcelona.
		The Republic of Venice includes the city itself, the surrounding islands and the shores of the lagoon, and farms and estates extending a few miles inland.
		Venice relies primarily on a militia and mercenaries for her army.
	home.comcast.net /~agronosky/ars_magica/palatini/mythic_venice.html (2888 words)

	Republic of Venice at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Republic of Venice was a state in Venetia in Northeastern Italy, based around the city of Venice.
		This led in 1508 to the League of Cambrai against Venice, in which the Pope, the King of France, the Emperor, and the King of Aragon came together to despoil the republic.
		The Republic was under the titular sovereignty of the Doge, a nobleman elected to the post for life.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Republic_of_Venice.html (441 words)

	Oligarchy, the Utopian System
		Venice was a very healthy place to live, despite the primitive sanitation arrangements in those days, because the sea washed all the effluent away.
		Venice was so healthy that visitors would remark that there was a higher proportion of old people than anywhere else in the world.
		In the last years of the Republic of Venice, the billionaires saw that their ideal system of government was under threat.
	www.students.org.au /oligarchy (3694 words)

	DP Zine: 34th Special Edition -- Venice \|
		Venice was another one of those Dip spaces that never quite lived up to its name.
		Venice was, of course, the prime mover and doer in the original Battle of Lepanto and it’s worth digressing for a moment (OK, I’ve been digressing ever since I started, but so what?) to consider the historical facts juxtapositioned on top of the gaming ones.
		Sonnet on the extinction of the Venetian Republic
	www.diplom.org /Zine/S2003M/Peery/Venice.html (1625 words)

	Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State, by David Rosand. Introduction. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		More than any other political entity of the early modern period, the Republic of Venice shaped the visual imagination of political thought; just as she instructed Europe--and, ultimately, the independent colonies of America--in the idea of statehood, so she taught how to give that idea eloquent pictorial form, especially through the figuration of the state.
		The others were figures symbolic of the Republic: its patron saint, the evangelist Mark, and the winged lion that stood for him, and then the regal personification of Venetia herself, Queen of the Adriatic.
		An anatomy of this concentrated manifestation of the iconography of the myth of Venice reveals some of its many dimensions, the complexity of its genesis, and the referential range inherent in the forms of her self-presentation.
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/rosand_myths.html (799 words)

	The New American - Republics and Democracies - February 1, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the early centuries of their republic, whenever they added to the total offices and officeholders, as often as not they were merely increasing the diffusion of power and trying to forestall the potential tyranny of one set of governmental agents by the guardianship or watchdog powers of another group.
		We are being insidiously, conspiratorially, and treasonously led by deception, by bribery, by coercion, and by fear to destroy a republic that was the envy and model for all of the civilized world.
		For the safeguards to person and property afforded by a republic, the stable framework which it supplied for life and labor at all levels, and the resulting constant flux of individuals from one class into another made caste impossible and snobbery a joke.
	www.thenewamerican.com /tna/1999/02-01-99/vo15no03_republics.htm (6308 words)

	Rd Venice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Venice defeated its rival Genoa in 1380 in the
		By the 15th century Venice was known as the "Queen of the
		In 1805 Venice was taken from Austria by the Treaty of
	www.rdvenice.com /newsletters/article1.html (426 words)

	The Treasury of San Marcos
		Then in 1797, when Venice fell to the armies of Napoleon, countless objects were melted down to obtain 537 kilograms of gold and silver to pay the war debt imposed upon the Republic.
		Founded in the age of legends, the Republic of Venice drew its identity from a legend with Apostolic authority.
		Although Venice had developed as a vassal of the Byzantine Empire, long before the time of the Crusades she had become very much an equal, accorded special trading privileges in exchange for naval and military support to rid the seas of pirates.
	www.humanities-interactive.org /medieval/sanmarco/essay.html (1640 words)

	The Venetian Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Venice was the capital of the independent Venetian Republic.
		In practice, the republic was administered by professional officials, who had to be citizens of Venice and who were appointed to their posts after a series of difficult examinations.
		Venice was the republic's center of industry, trade, and culture.
	muse.tau.ac.il /museum/galileo/venice_eng.html (502 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Il Senato della Republica Venetiana: Collaborative AAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This was a somewhat clumsy contrivance of the Republic to give a patriotic character to its armies, which were often recruited from mercenaries and generaled by them; and, of course, the hireling leaders must always have chafed under the surveillance.
		My lord, Venice confides in you; in you She sees a son; and all that to her good and to her glory can redound, expects shall be done by you.
		But the suspicions of Venice were increased by finding that the Duke of Milan was in communication with Carmagnola and was prepared to conclude a peace through him as intermediary, suspicions confirmed by the dilatory conduct of their general after the victory at Maclodio (1427), when nothing lay between him and Milan.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=173861 (7449 words)

	About a Robbery in the Treasury of the Republic of Venice
		In the fifteenth century there was a precious collection of precious gems and jewels in the treasury of Venice and a robber found a way into the treasury so that he could take small amounts of gems whenever he pleased.
		In 1449, the precious hoard of saintly relics, valuable jewels, and other riches, in the treasury of the Republic of Venice, very narrowly escaped dispersion through an artful robbery.
		Among the suite of the house of Este, indulged, according to custom, with an inspection of the wonders of the treasury of St. Mark's, was a Canadian, named Stammato, in whose bosom the sacred spectacle awakened more desire than veneration.
	www.jjkent.com /articles/robbery-treasury-venice.htm (567 words)

	An Important Distinction: Democracy versus Republic
		Its purpose is to control The Majority strictly, as well as all others among the people, primarily to protect The Individual’s God-given, unalienable rights and therefore for the protection of the rights of The Minority, of all minorities, and the liberties of people in general.
		The definition of a Republic is: a constitutionally limited government of the representative type, created by a written Constitution--adopted by the people and changeable (from its original meaning) by them only by its amendment--with its powers divided between three separate Branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial.
		The first genuine and soundly founded Republic in all history was the one created by the first genuine Constitution, which was adopted by the people of Massachusetts in 1780 after being framed for their consideration by a specially chosen Constitutional Convention.
	www.lexrex.com /enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/demrep.html (1934 words)

	Veneto Region (Italy)
		"The flag of Veneto, is the one of the old Republic of Venice, fallen in 1797 with Napoleon's conquest.
		The dark red and gold flag of the "Serenissima" Republic of Venice (from early days until May 1797) is sparkling a harsh debate in Italy, because of the group of Venetian independentist who occupied (using a home-made tank) the Bell Tower of St. Mark Square ten days ago and raised the
		In the time of the Serenisime republic the territory under its control was important and some banners are in use in several regions.
	www.fotw.us /flags/it-ven.html (922 words)

	Venice Syllabus
		William Wordsworth,"On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic"
		The seminar will conclude with a discussion of the decline of Venice as a political and economic power and its reinvention as a tourist site and living museum for the modern era.
		Lucette Valensi, The Birth of the Despot: Venice and the Sublime Porte, trans.
	www.stanford.edu /class/history213b (1168 words)

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		VENICE a Maritime Republic history by Frederic Lane HC
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	SessionThree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Among the earliest cities to spring back into life around 1000 CE were those on the coast -- Amalfi, Pisa, Genoa, Venice -- with access to Mediterranean trade, which had never ceased since Roman times, but was carried mostly by Byzantine and Islamic ships.
		In time, the greatest of these was Venice, which won its freedom from Byzantine domination and remained autonomous until Napoleon's invasion of 1797.
		Venetian institutions permitted its city to acquire economic preeminence in the Mediterranean world, at the same time that they supplied a model of republican governance to the other states of Italy and of Europe.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /history/king/History24.03.htm (158 words)

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